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CVE-2017-17090

HighCVSS 7.5 / 10
Published Dec 2, 2017·Last modified Apr 10, 2026
Affected Components(39)
asterisk/asterisk
certified/13.13-cert5
asterisk/asterisk
13.13-cert1
asterisk/asterisk
14.7.0
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Description

An issue was discovered in chan_skinny.c in Asterisk Open Source 13.18.2 and older, 14.7.2 and older, and 15.1.2 and older, and Certified Asterisk 13.13-cert7 and older. If the chan_skinny (aka SCCP protocol) channel driver is flooded with certain requests, it can cause the asterisk process to use excessive amounts of virtual memory, eventually causing asterisk to stop processing requests of any kind.

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Risk Scores
Base Score
7.5

The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a high impact on the availability of the system.

Threat Intelligence
7.3

Exploitation activity has been observed. Apply available patches or mitigations urgently.

EPSS
82.20%

The exploit probability is critical. The vulnerability is very likely to be exploited in the next 30 days.

Exploit
Functional

A functional exploit is available for this vulnerability (1 exploit found).

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